William Blackwood & Sons was a Scottish
publishing house and printer founded by
William Blackwood in 1804. It played a key role in literary history, publishing many important authors, for example
John Buchan,
George Tomkyns Chesney,
Joseph Conrad,
George Eliot,
E. M. Forster,
John Galt,
Thomas de Quincey,
Charles Reade,
Margaret Oliphant,
John Hanning Speke and
Anthony Trollope, both in books and in the monthly
Blackwood’s Magazine.